Participatory Democracy Quotes

• Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

  Michael Moore

  Sports, Democracy, Events

  "'Capitalism is evil,' says new Michael Moore film" by Mike Collett-White, www.reuters.com. September 6, 2009.

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• This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

  George Takei

  People, Democracy, Manipulation

  "CJAD" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. November 21, 1994.

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• La democracia neoliberal. En lugar de ciudadanos, produce consumidores. En lugar de comunidades, produce centros comerciales. El resultado neto es una sociedad atomizada de individuos desvinculados que se sienten desmoralizados e impotentes socialmente. En resumen, el neoliberalismo es el enemigo inmediato y principal de la auténtica democracia participativa, no sólo en Estados Unidos sino en todo el planeta, y lo será en el futuro previsible.

  Noam Chomsky

  Shopping, Community, Enemy

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.8, Seven Stories Press

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• The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.

  John Dewey

  Self, Expression, Community

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• In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Interesting, Community

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to go on television as having been there and made a fuss. This doesn't mean I don't believe in participatory democracy.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Mean, People

  Fuente: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• When we talk about Cuban democracy we are referring to participatory democracy which is big difference with representative bourgeois democracy. Our is a democracy in which everything is consulted with the people; it is a democracy in which every aspect and important decision that has an impact in the life and society of the people, is done in consultation.

  Alejandro Castro Espín

  Differences, Impact, People

  "El futuro de Cuba". Entrevista con Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. 27 de febrero de 2015.

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• I'm impatient not with the House of Commons as an institution, but with the way in which it is operated. This doesn't prove I don't believe in participatory democracy.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, House, Democracy

  Fuente: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• En otras palabras, el listón debe mantenerse al nivel de una democracia pluralista y participativa.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Bars, Levels

  "Democracia en Oriente Medio, pluralismo en Europa: Turkish View". Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The Turkish Weekly, 12 de octubre de 2004.

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• In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.

  Alejandro Castro Espín

  Real, Taken, Water

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is equally unreasonable to run a university as a "participatory democracy," the approach to governance that once existed in Europe. That approach in European institutions of higher learning was appealing to professors because it was democratic. But those institutions also suffered because they lacked an executive decision-making process; making changes became virtually impossible.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Running, Europe, Decision

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

  Frank Prochaska

  Erosion, People, Democracy

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• Hay que desconfiar de la opinión de que estas coaliciones laxas y diversas representan una nueva forma de democracia participativa globalizada. La industria de la disidencia es en gran medida un producto de la revolución de Internet. La creación de redes baratas, sin fronteras y en tiempo real proporciona a las organizaciones no gubernamentales [ONG] de defensa economías de escala y también de alcance al vincular a grupos muy dispares con un tema común.

  Sylvia Ostry

  Real, Opiniones, Organización

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• El menú de esta cocina tendrá algo más que sopa; servirá como oportunidad para explorar el vasto poder sin explotar de la comida como fuerza para la democracia participativa, como medio de empoderamiento para los que tienen poco y como lente a través de la cual abrazamos, y de hecho saboreamos, nuestras diferencias pero vemos y vivimos a través de nuestros puntos en común. Si comes, formas parte de esto.

  Sam Kass

  Media, Oportunidad, Diferencias

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